The world has ended again!

Posted by Runeslinger on July 12, 2013 · 4 Comments 

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I am pleased to report that I have been given the opportunity to run Desolation for a group of players new to it and to Ubiquity. The group is in the midst of character creation at the moment, and so I am drinking in all the comments they drop about the game and setting to … Continue reading →

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Enforcing Genre Fidelity Mechanically

Posted by Runeslinger on March 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

For the sake of sanity and brevity, I do not want to get into the distinctions between being true to a genre to varying degrees, and caricaturing a genre. If you see me doing that, please stop me. I would like to remain briefly sane… wait. Nevermind. “I am gonna send you to a deep, … Continue reading →

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Distractions of Creativity

Posted by Runeslinger on March 10, 2013 · 6 Comments 

I think when I was younger, and had more time for gaming, the primary reason I was involved in running so many games was that the act of refining ideas I have created seems to spark more and more ideas for completely unrelated things. As readers of this blog know, these days I am working … Continue reading →

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Roleplaying: The Simulation

Posted by Runeslinger on November 25, 2012 · 8 Comments 

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For a few weeks now I have been in the process of doing short clips (no, really!) on my YouTube channel which are intended to serve as an introduction to a style of play which I feel was more common in the past than it is now. Although badly or misleadingly named (and I apologize … Continue reading →

Category Casting the Shadows, Characters and Support Cast, Live Game Report, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, Shadowscast, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with , , , , ,

More Gaming with Google+

Posted by Runeslinger on October 22, 2012 · 6 Comments 

As readers of this blog already know, I like Play by e-Mail games and have found them much easier to run since the advent of Gmail. A few weeks ago, I transformed a game slated to be run as a PBeM into a game run via Google+ and my initial feeling is that I will … Continue reading →

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